Lorenz Kasch

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 33)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  20 Aug 1914 Hamburg
Died  17 Oct 1943(29)Cape Farewell


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Ranks

1 Apr 1933 Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1934 Fähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1936 Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Oct 1936 Leutnant zur See
1 Jun 1938 Oberleutnant zur See
1 Dec 1940 Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-333 9 Oct 1942 22 Nov 1942   1 patrol (15 days) 
U-540 10 Mar 1943 17 Oct 1943  (+)  1 patrol (14 days) 

During 1941 Kasch served as gunnery officer of the famous raider Atlantis.

On 9 Oct, 1942 Kasch took command of the very heavily damaged U-333 from Peter Cremer who has very seriously wounded from battle with HMS Crocus. Kasch was stationed on the U-107 and transferred over to the damaged boat with the intention of taking her home to France (Blair, 1998).

A day out of France on Oct 21 the surfaced boat was attacked by former German U-570, then operating as British HMS Graph, but alert crew managed to avert disaster.

Kasch, having successfully completed his mission, left the boat for Germany to take command of a new type IX boat - the U-540.

Sources

Blair, C. (1998). Hitler’s U-boat War. The Hunted, 1942-1945.
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.

Patrol info for Lorenz Kasch

 U-boat Departure Arrival  
1. U-333 9 Oct 1942  *at sea*  23 Oct 1942  La Pallice  Patrol 1,15 days
2. U-540 11 Sep 1943  Kiel  14 Sep 1943  Bergen   4 days
3. U-540 4 Oct 1943  Bergen  17 Oct 1943  Sunk  Patrol 2,14 days
2 patrols, 29 days at sea


About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.

Media links


German U-boat Commanders of World War II

Busch, Rainer and Röll, Hans-Joachim

Listing of all U-boat commanders


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